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Karel the Robot 1.00

This is the IBM PC version (1.00) of Karel the Robot. I’ve uploaded the accompanying Guide to the Internet Archive. Here’s an excerpt:

Let’s Meet Karel

Throughout this course, a friendly robot named Karel helps you explore the world of programming. The concepts in this Guide–as well as Karel’s programming language, sample programs, and many programming tasks–are explained in detail in the textbook. Use the textbook, along with this Guide, as you experiment with the different parts of the Karel System.

This small robot is well known to fame,
He is clever, and Karel is his name;
If you are his pal,
He will teach you PASCAL,
And turn programming into a game.

--Isaac Asimov
  February 7, 1983

The first disk is loaded in the machine below and should boot automatically.

[PCjs Machine "ibm5150"]

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The software was distributed on three 360Kb non-DOS diskettes, so no directory listings are available.

Karel the Robot (KAREL)

Karel the Robot (WORLDS)

Karel the Robot (ANSWERS)